Approaches to the Oriental ClassicsWilliam Theodore De Bary Columbia University Press, 1959 - 262 pages |
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Page ix
... interest in and spreading knowledge of Asia . A significant number of these are active on the level of undergraduate education . This , together with the spontaneous interest that has sprung up among students all over the country , has ...
... interest in and spreading knowledge of Asia . A significant number of these are active on the level of undergraduate education . This , together with the spontaneous interest that has sprung up among students all over the country , has ...
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... interest in academic subjects is all to the good . It is noticeable , I think , that more and more people who profess an interest in Eastern civilizations are using their knowledge to wage war against their own culture . The latest ...
... interest in academic subjects is all to the good . It is noticeable , I think , that more and more people who profess an interest in Eastern civilizations are using their knowledge to wage war against their own culture . The latest ...
Page 146
... interest to Confucius mainly in terms of its immediate relevance to crucial issues of his day and age . To say this , however , is not to imply that the validity of Confucius ' thought is limited to those particular problems . The ...
... interest to Confucius mainly in terms of its immediate relevance to crucial issues of his day and age . To say this , however , is not to imply that the validity of Confucius ' thought is limited to those particular problems . The ...
Contents
Opening Remarks by Jacques Barzun THE TEACHING OF | 3 |
Great BooksEast and West by Mark Van Doren | 7 |
Education in a Multicultural World by Thomas Berry 24 On Exploiting the Greek Analogy by Moses Hadas | 24 |
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